GLOBAL VISION, LOCAL ACTION: ALIGNING HONG KONG'S 2030+ WITH THE UN NEW URBAN AGENDA

Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus 2.0 / An Event of the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign

1st Floor Atrium, AIT Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday April 1, 2017

The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative of UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign, conceived as an open space for critical exchange between urban actors. It is intended as a platform to build consensus on urbanization challenges and solutions to urban futures. The Urban Thinkers Campus creates a platform to reflect on current urban challenges and trends as well as to propose a new urban paradigm. The outcomes will contribute to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito 2016.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR Government”) is undertaking a six-month consultation process on the “Hong Kong 2030+: Towards a Planning Vision and Strategy Transcending 2030” (Hong Kong 2030+). This strategy will decide the future of sustainable urban development of the city towards 2030 and beyond. Meanwhile, the adoption of the New Urban Agenda at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in October 2016 presents a critical framework to mobilise cities and regions around sustainable development in urban settings. The objectives of this UTC will be to:

Provide a forum for discussion regarding Hong Kong’s urban future, as part of the Hong Kong 2030+ consultation process

Examine avenues for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in the Hong Kong setting

Identify areas of linkages and synergies between the New Urban Agenda and the Hong Kong 2030+ process and advocate for their systematic alignment and integration

Programme

Campus: 9:00am to 4:00pm

09:00 am - 09:30 am	Registration
09:30 am - 09:35 am	Welcome and Introduction to UTC	Prof Hendrik TIEBEN & Sharon LO
09:35 am - 10:45 am	Urban Lab: Habitat III, New Urban Agenda (NUA) & Hong Kong 2030+	Dan K.H. CHAN (Moderator) Prof Mee Kam NG Phyllis Chi-miu LI JP
10:45 am - 11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00 am - 01:00 pm	Urban Inclusion and Leaving No One Behind Urban Prosperity and Inclusive Economic Development Urban Resilience and Environmental Sustainability Urban Design and Public Space	Prof Mee Kam NG & Prof WONG Hung WONG Yuen Shan & Iris CHAN Wilfred LAU & Dan K.H. CHAN Prof Hendrik TIEBEN & Paul ZIMMERMAN
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm	Lunch
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm	Reporting Back: Urban Thinkers Sessions	Moderators & everyone
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm	Action and Policy Recommendation Brainstorm	Moderators & everyone
03:45 pm - 04:00 pm	Concluding remarks: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Hong Kong 2030+	Moderators & everyone

Themes of Urban Thinker Sessions

Urban inclusion and leaving no one behind
Urban prosperity and inclusive economic development
Urban resilience and environmental sustainability (Registration Full)
Urban design and public space (Registration Full)

List of Speakers and Moderators

Dan K.H. CHAN, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network - Youth Initiative
Iris CHAN, HKCSS-HSBC SEBC, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service
Wilfred LAU, ARUP
Phyllis LI, Hong Kong Planning Department
Sharon LO, UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Mee Kam NG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hendrik TIEBEN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hung WONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yuen Shan WONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paul ZIMMERMAN, Designing Hong Kong

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Action and Policy Recommendation Brainstorm Form

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Registration

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Contact

For enquiries, please contact at utc2.0@cuhk.edu.hk

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For More Information on the Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus

Mee Kam Ng 伍美琴教授
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRMD)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Room 226, 2/F, Wong Foo Yuan Building
Department of Geography and Resource Management
Faculty of Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3943 6645
Fax: +852 2603 5006
meekng[at]cuhk.edu.hk
www.iofc.cuhk.edu.hk

Hendrik Tieben 田恆德
Associate Professor
Director, MSc in Urban Design Programme
School of Architecture
Faculty of Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rm 306, AIT Building, CUHK
Tel: +852 3943 8095
hktieben[at]cuhk.edu.hk
http://web5.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/urbandesign/index.html